Isostructural σ-hydrocarbyl phospholide complexes of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium

Michaela Černá; John A Seed; Sara Garrido Fernandez; Michael T Janicke; Brian L Scott; George F S Whitehead; Andrew J Gaunt; Conrad A P Goodwin

doi:10.1039/d2cc04803e

Isostructural σ-hydrocarbyl phospholide complexes of uranium, neptunium, and plutonium

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Nov 29;58(95):13278-13281. doi: 10.1039/d2cc04803e.

Authors

Michaela Černá¹, John A Seed¹, Sara Garrido Fernandez¹, Michael T Janicke², Brian L Scott³, George F S Whitehead¹, Andrew J Gaunt², Conrad A P Goodwin^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Radiochemistry Research, Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. [email protected].
² Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA.
³ Materials Physics & Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA.

PMID: 36373547
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc04803e

Abstract

σ-Hydrocarbyl complexes of the form [M(η⁵-PC₄Me₄)₂(μ-η¹:η⁶-CH₂Ph)₂K(η⁶-arene)] (M = La, Ce, Pr, U, Np, Pu; arene = benzene or toluene) were synthesised in one-pot reactions from [MI₃(THF)₄], or [U(BH₄)₃(toluene)] (M = U). All complexes were examined by multinuclear (¹H, ¹³C{¹H}, ³¹P{¹H}) NMR and UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy, as well as single-crystal X-ray diffraction from which molecular metal-phosphorus bonds for Np and Pu, and a σ-hydrocarbyl metal-carbon bond for Pu, have been structurally authenticated.